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Maternally derived chemical defenses are an effective deterrent against some predators of poison frog tadpoles (Oophaga pumilio)
(2014)
Parents defend their young in many ways, including provisioning chemical defences. Recent work in a poison frog system offers the first example of an animal that provisions its young with alkaloids after hatching or birth ...
Empirical evidence for multiple costs of begging in poison frog tadpoles
(2018)
In recent decades, theoretical and empirical work has investigated the relative roles of costs and benefits in inhibiting excessive displays of begging to parents. Whether costs are important in maintaining reliability of ...